The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories

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English language

Published Aug. 23, 2002

ISBN:
9780806523798

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4 stars (1 review)

The Minority Report is a re-titled collection of science fiction stories by Philip K. Dick. It was published by Gollancz and Citadel Twilight in 1991, being a reprint of Volume IV, "The Days of Perky Pat" of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick (1987). The collection The Days of Perky Pat was published in Britain in hardback by Gollancz in 1990 and in paperback by Grafton in 1991. The stories had originally appeared in the magazines Galaxy Science Fiction, Science Fiction Stories, If, Fantastic Universe, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fantastic, Worlds of Tomorrow, Escapade and Amazing Stories.

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This is an interesting collection of short stories. It's always interesting to read old sci-fi. In some respects, Mr. Dick could see well beyond our years, but in others, couldn't see at all past his own.

Ignoring the strange anachronisms (e.g., an AI-robot which can so successfully frame a man for murder that even he might believe it, in the same story with a supercomputer connected to a nation-wide database of every person, and all their characteristics, which stores its data on punch cards, and takes up an entire building), one sees a brilliant collections of stories to excite the mind.